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ZenGum

02-10-2013 05:19 PM

February 10, 2013: Frost Flowers

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Gun Lake in British Columbia,Canada - frost flowers.

When these photographs were taken "the air was extremely cold and extremely dry, colder than the ocean surface. When the air gets that different from the sea, the dryness pulls moisture off little bumps in the ice, bits of ice vaporize, the air gets humid - but only for a while. The cold makes water vapor heavy. The air wants to release that excess weight, so crystal by crystal, air turns back into ice, creating delicate, feathery tendrils that reach sometimes two, three inches high, like giant snowflakes. The sea, literally, blossoms."

Photographer: Michelle Nortje www.southchilcotin.ca

glatt

02-10-2013 07:33 PM

That's amazing

orthodoc

02-10-2013 08:16 PM

Beautiful.

xoxoxoBruce

02-10-2013 08:52 PM

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Those are cool, but I don't understand the ocean and sea references, in the quote. Gun Lake is almost 3,000 ft above sea level. :confused:

footfootfoot

02-10-2013 09:07 PM

It would be awesome to be the size of a mouse in a miniature canoe and explore those.

Aliantha

02-10-2013 09:18 PM

That's so awesome! Amazing. I never could have imagined something like that could happen and look so uniform.

Sundae

02-11-2013 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 852235)

It would be awesome to be the size of a mouse in a miniature canoe.

That's all you need to say.

Griff

02-11-2013 05:34 AM

Wow.

glatt

02-11-2013 07:21 AM

NPR apparently did a bit on this recently. I never heard of these things. Amazing.

footfootfoot

02-11-2013 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 852276)

That's all you need to say.

Do you mean I had you at miniature canoe?

Sundae

02-11-2013 09:47 AM

You had me at mouse, you saucy whatsit.

ZenGum

02-11-2013 06:33 PM

All the ladies like the little man in a boat.

Griff

02-11-2013 08:06 PM

If you're going up the canal you gots to pay the gondolier.

ZenGum

02-11-2013 08:30 PM

We're one "rosebud" comment away from a circular thread drift.

footfootfoot

02-11-2013 09:42 PM

Very very cool, Robert Frost.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two streams converged in a pond, and I—
I took the one more frozen,
And that has made all the difference

Gravdigr

02-12-2013 03:49 PM

from wiki article "Frost Flower (Sea Ice)"

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Frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found growing on young sea ice and thin lake ice in cold, calm conditions.

Trilby

02-17-2013 06:49 AM

Then the flutings of their Ionian
Death-gowns.
Then two little feet.
He does not smile or smoke.

The other does that
His hair long and plausive
Bastard
Masturbating a glitter
He wants to be loved.

I do not stir.
The frost makes a flower,
The dew makes a star,
The dead bell,
The dead bell.

Somebody's done for.

NOT the entire poem, Death&Co by Plath, but the frost makes a flower reminded me of this part of the poem.

BigV	02-19-2013 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 852475)

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two streams converged in a pond, and I—
I took the one more frozen,
And that has made all the difference

+1 clever
+1 apropos

Very cool indeed "Mr Frost"

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